Happy Dreamcast Day

[FaeryTaleAdventurer]

Today, the North American SEGA Dreamcast turns 13 years old. I got my Dreamcast on Christmas Day, and for me it was well worth the wait!

Here are the games in my DC library (games recieved at Christmastime in bold):
Sonic Adventure
Armada
Dynamite Cop
Blue Stinger (really had to ask for this one; it became my most personal favorite)
Dreamcast Generator Vol. 1
Web Browser 1.0 (not really a game but it was awesome to use for games and internet)
Crazy Taxi
AeroWings
Shenmue
Skies of Arcadia
Maken X
Sonic Adventure 2
Soul Calibur
Speed Devils
Phantasy Star Online ver. 2

I had a MadCatz light-gun, but was only really useful for the House of the Dead 2 demo on the Dreamcast Generator.

I still play Dreamcast today, though not as much as I'd like to.

Let's celebrate. Share anything you'd like about Dreamcast, be it positive or negative, just remember to keep it fun!

[tyler2513]

I've always been interested in the Sega Dreamcast but never to sure if I want to buy one. It has some great, colourful games but a lot of them can be played in remastered HD collections or in XBLA and whatnot. I'd still like to own one someday, but I wouldn't know what games are better. Those seem like some of the Dreamcast's better titles but I certainly wouldn't know that for sure.

[SineRider]

Bluestinger is such an awesome game!

[Eddmario]

Hydro Thunder was the best game the Dreamcast got.

[Hikky-Dikky]

Ironically I just got back into Shenmue today not knowing that it was the 13th anniversary of the Dreamcast.

Has anyone seen a black car drive by here at high speed?

[TheMajormel]

I'm thinking of getting a dreamcast, just to try it out.

[Nentindo]

I miss my Dreamcast. I still have it, but if I use it for over five minutes it makes a mysterious smell and some smoke comes out of the fan bit at the back... Still, at least I can play half a level of Jet Set Radio before my room is a fire hazard.

[Ragnarokia]

At 9/9/12 09:27 AM, FaeryTaleAdventurer wrote: Today, the North American SEGA Dreamcast turns 13 years old. I got my Dreamcast on Christmas Day, and for me it was well worth the wait!

Damn 13, doesn't seem like that long. I loved the Dreamcast myself still my second favourite console behind the PS2 despite me loosing the cables to play it. I didn't have to many games, but I loved the few I did have.

Skies of Arcadia, Toy Commander, Sonic Adventure 1/2, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, Fur Fighters, Chu Chu Rocket, I think a few more but can't recall fully. Great games. Pity the console died.

[The-Great-One]

Ah Shenmue. How come nobody played this game? Because it was too different? Okay... so Sleeping Dogs is a pinnacle of gaming then?

Yeah for the Sega Dreamcast. Sega's last stand. Funny thing, if Sega came back into the console market they would make a killing off of the nostalgia and people fed up with Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

[II2none]

At 9/9/12 09:27 AM, FaeryTaleAdventurer wrote:

Maken X

Overdue for a reboot/ remake. There's just somethin about dis game...

[FaeryTaleAdventurer]

At 9/9/12 09:48 AM, tyler2513 wrote: I've always been interested in the Sega Dreamcast but never to sure if I want to buy one. It has some great, colourful games but a lot of them can be played in remastered HD collections or in XBLA and whatnot. I'd still like to own one someday, but I wouldn't know what games are better. Those seem like some of the Dreamcast's better titles but I certainly wouldn't know that for sure.

Honestly, i think that there are some nice things about remakes, but often the remakes or ports of original Dreamcast games isn't all that well. I've read a review or two on the Dreamcast Collection, and they weren't all that happy. Some graphics may look nice, but other things about the graphics may seem to be worse off than the original (Soul Calibur comes to mind), Skies of Arcadia Legends may have had a whole lot of new content that the original game had, but the music quality took a dive as the GameCube failed to emulate the Dreamcast's Yamaha Super Intelligent AICA audio chip.

If anything, I'd highly recommend you stick with the originals, if you can.

[FaeryTaleAdventurer]

At 9/10/12 09:13 PM, II2none wrote:

At 9/9/12 09:27 AM, FaeryTaleAdventurer wrote:

Maken X

Overdue for a reboot/ remake. There's just somethin about dis game...

This certainly was an interesting game, though I can't say that the "remake" that was released on the PlayStation 2 was as great as the original in some respects.

Sure you'd get more FMV cutscenes and perhaps more story or RP elements, but the new 3rd person perspective animation has been described as "clumsy" by some reviewers.

If a new major remake is done, I'd want ATLUS to go back to the first person perspective, or make a balanced interchangable view that can shift between 1st and 3rd person, and give it newer graphics, and retain all the new content from the PS2 remake, and perhaps have the story make more sense to the gamers.